Word: boater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purple robes and a helmet-shaped crown of gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...
...move toward adopting the man's straw as their own began last year when collegians popularized the gondolier straw hat, a cross between the U.S. male's straw boater (now enjoying a booming revival) and the Venetian gondolier's wide-brimmed hat. But fashion is as fickle on the beaches as in the salons of Paris. College girls spending their spring vacations in Bermuda and Nassau this year discovered the virtues of the man's straw hat, enthusiastically spread the fad through whole campuses-and delighted straw hat manufacturers. "We were tired of the big straw...
...yelping children and their mothers clambered and danced through the meadows of Manhattan's summer-striped Central Park. It was a grand picnic-the 22nd annual June Walk of the Monongahela Club. Round-faced, genial James J. Hines eased a piggybacking child from his shoulders, doffed his straw boater, wiped the sweat from his face and said proudly: "Kids who came to the first of these things are voters now. They're not all voting my district, but they're voting somewhere...
...putt-putt industry has burgeoned, so have its troubles. Acting on behalf of many an irate non-boater, community after community has passed laws aimed at cutting down the noise nuisance of the outboards. Today some 20 states have laws limiting speed and horsepower or requiring certain muffling standards. Five states limit outboards to 7 h.p. or less...
...natty boater...